HOP!

This piece is comprised of a plain white box, with collaged elements, which houses an origami 'book' covered in text.

The cover of the box has a quotation from Oscar Wildes introduction to his novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', and contains the highest principle of the Aesthete, 'That all Art is quite useless.' The figures about the box cover are photocopied from Bruegel and the letters spelling HOP! are cut from the cover of a Russian Contructivist artists' book. The box itself originally packaged computer software.

The origami 'book' is made from forty individually folded pieces of paper, twenty white and twenty black. The white pages are covered in photocopied text. When opened the shapes can fold together to create a twenty-sided polygon covered in text. The text comes from 'Murders at the Rue Morgue', by Edgar Allen Poe.

This object, produced in a manner that it may be reproduced as a multiple, is both a maquette and a prototype for a form of self-publishing.